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Language variation and change in social networks

Robin Dodsworth | Richard A. Benton
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acoustic phonetics
African American Vernacular English
Author_Richard A. Benton
Author_Robin Dodsworth
Bipartite Case
Bipartite Network
blue collar
Blue Collar Women
Category=CFB
Category=CFF
cohesive blocking
Collar Females
Collar Women
Community Detection
community detection methods
Dependent Variable Matrix
eq_bestseller
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Equivalence Distance
Global Clustering Coefficient
Graph Theoretic Methods
Isabelle Buchstaller
Jaccard Distance
Jaccard Similarity
language change
LVC
microclass
national vowel changes
nestedness
nestedness analysis
network analysis
Network Clustering Coefficient
Network Metrics
Network Strength Scale
network variables
occupational stratification
OLS Regression
quantitative analysis
quantitative analysis of vowel change
Raleigh
Socio-linguistic Studies
socioeconomic class
socioeconomic variables
sociolinguistic corpora
sociolinguistic networks
sociolinguistic variation
Southern Vowel Shift
Spearman Rank Order Correlation Tests
structural equivalence theory
Suzanne Evans Wagner
Triadic Closure
UNC Chapel Hill
variationist sociolinguistics
Vowel's Duration
Vowel’s Duration
Wake Field
white collar
White Collar Women
working class
Youngest Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367777500
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Apr 2021
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation, in order to build a quantitative analysis of the class and network effects implicated in vowel change in a Southern American city.

Studies of sociolinguistic variation in urban spaces have uncovered durable patterns of linguistic difference, such as the maintenance of blue collar/white collar distinctions in the case of stable linguistic variables. But the underlying interactional origins of these patterns, and the interactional reasons for their durability, are not well understood, due in part to the near-absence of large-scale network investigation. This book undertakes a sociolinguistic network analysis of data from the Raleigh corpus, a set of conversational interviews collected form natives of Raleigh, North Carolina, from 2008-2017. Acoustic analysis of the corpus shows the rapid, ongoing retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift and increasing participation in national vowel changes. The social distribution of these trends is explored via standard social factors such as occupation as well as innovative network variables, including a measure of nestedness in the community network.

The book aims to pursue new network-based questions about sociolinguistic variation that can be applied to other corpora, making this key reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics and historical linguistics as well as those interested in further understanding how existing quantitative network methods from sociological research might be applied to sociolinguistic data.
About Richard A. Benton | Robin Dodsworth

Robin Dodsworth is Associate Professor of English in the Linguistics program at North Carolina State
University, USA.

Richard Benton is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA.

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